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Gucci Mane opened the record label after signing with Mizay Entertainment in 2007, following the release of his independent album, Trap-A-Thon. On May 4, 2010, Mane announced he had closed So Icey Entertainment and left Mizay Entertainment due to business problems with Debra Antney.[1]

Gucci Mane stated that he was starting his own record label and that his employer, Jerry Alvarado, was already signing a distribution deal with Asylum Records. The first artists to sign up to 1017 Brick Squad were OJ Da Juiceman, Wali Da Great, and Waka Flocka Flame, who signed up whilst they were still signed to Mizay Entertainment.

Juiceman's debut album was unofficially released through the Brick Squad record label (officially it was released through Asylum Records and Mizay Entertainment). Brick Squad's first mainstream success occurred in 2009, when Gucci released The State vs. Radric Davis. Brick Squad also signed Waka Flocka Flame, who released his debut album, Flockaveli, through Brick Squad, Mizay Entertainment, and Warner Bros. On September 28, 2010, Mane released his third studio album, The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted.

On December 16, 2011, member Slim Dunkin was shot and killed at an Atlanta recording studio preparing to shoot a music video. He was shot while arguing with another person in the building, who has been identified as another Atlanta rapper, Young Vito.[2][3] On February 25, 2013, Young Vito was acquitted of murdering Slim Dunkin, but he was given a 25-year sentence for aggravated assault and possession of a firearm.[4]

On March 15, 2013, via Twitter, Gucci Mane said that he "dropped" Waka Flocka Flame and he was no longer a member of 1017 Brick Squad.[5] The next day, Gucci's management claimed his Twitter account was hacked and he had not sent the tweet about Waka Flocka.[6] However Waka would claim this to be false and later diss Gucci Mane at a Dipset reunion concert in New York City. On March 27, 2013, Waka told MTV that it would be impossible for him to be dropped from 1017 Brick Squad as he owns stake in the company. He also confirmed that there was indeed a feud going on between the rappers and "they would never make music or do business together again."[7]

On May 8, 2013, Gucci Mane announced via Twitter that Savannah, Georgia rapper Juan Servin was the newest member of 1017 Brick Squad.[8] The following day, Gucci announced that he also signed producer C4, who had frequently worked with 1017 artists in the past.[9]

On September 7, 2013, various members of 1017 Brick Squad and Brick Squad Mafia traded shots back and forth on Twitter, including Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, Frenchie, Wooh Da Kid, and OJ da Juiceman. Gucci would go on to say "fuck brick squad" and accuse his former manager, Waka Flocka's mom Debra Antney, of stealing money from OJ da Juiceman and Frenchie. Frenchie also accused Gucci Mane of paying for Young Vito's lawyer, the accused murderer of former 1017 Brick Squad artist Slim Dunkin, which Gucci denied. Frenchie would release a diss record towards Gucci the following day.[10]

During the following days, it was revealed that OJ da Juiceman, Frenchie, and Woo da Kid were no longer (or in some cases had never been) officially signed to 1017 Brick Squad Records. Waka Flocka and OG Mack Drama also exchanged words on Twitter that eventually developed into a huge rumor; as reported by a fake TMZ website, Waka Flocka allegedly paid OG Mack Drama a substantial amount of money to be stamped a Piru Blood; they later had a falling-out. Their street counterparts were divided, with some gangsters in the streets siding with OG Mack Drama and some with Waka Flocka.[11][12][13] It was also revealed that Waka Flocka recently bought out a distribution deal with Atlantic Records.[14]

1017 South (Brick Squad Mafia South)

Label imprint 1017 Brick Squad South was launched in October 2016 as a subsidiary of Brick Squad Mafia. It was founded by seasoned music industry executive Jon Borrero, and the CEO of Brick Squad Mafia OG Mack Drama. The label is headquartered in Miami, Florida. 1017 Brick Squad South announced that it would sign its first artist in early 2017.

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Interscope
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992

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Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on December 14,2006, the brothers had become ardent fans of jazz and rhythm & blues music, amassing a collection of over 15,00078 RPM records. He convinced the family dentist, Dr Vahdi Sabit, to invest $10,000 and recruited Herb Abramson, Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. He founded Jubilee Records in 1946, but had no interest in its most successful artists, so, in September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2500 in the new Atlantic label. When interviewed in 2009 she attributed her reputation to the companys chronic cash-flow shortage, most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us. We were undercapitalized for a long time, the labels original office in the Ritz Hotel, Manhattan proved too expensive so they relocated to an $85 per month room in the Hotel Jefferson. In its early years Atlantic focused principally on modern jazz although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. Ertegun composed many songs under the alias A, in early 1949 a New Orleans distributor phoned Ertegun trying to obtain Stick McGhees Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, which was unavailable due to the closure of McGhees previous label. Ertegun knew Sticks younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers, Ertegun asked about artists royalties, which he paid, which surprised Columbia executives, who did not, which scuttled the deal. On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson went to see Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and she was badly injured in a car accident en route to New York but Atlantic supported her for nine months and then signed her. Her first release for the label So Long, cut at her second Atlantic session on May 25,1949 with the Eddie Condon band, was a major hit, reaching #6 on the R&B chart. Brown went on to more than eighty songs for the label, becoming the most prolific. So significant was Browns success to Atlantics fortunes that the label became known colloquially as The House That Ruth Built. The Clovers Dont You Know I Love You became the labels first R&B #1 in September 1951 and she hit #1 again in March–April 1952 with 5-10-15 Hours. After she left the label in 1961 Browns fortunes declined rapidly - within a few years was reduced to working as a cleaner and bus-driver to support her children. Brown eventually received a payment of $20,000 and founded a charity

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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop

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Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs

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Waka Flocka Flame
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Juaquin James Malphurs, better known as Waka Flocka Flame or simply Waka Flocka, is an American rapper. His debut studio album Flockaveli was released in 2010 and his second studio album Triple F Life, Friends, Fans & Family was released in 2012 and was preceded by the lead single Round of Applause. Malphurs was born in South Jamaica, New York and his family eventually settled in Riverdale, Georgia. His mother, Debra Antney, is rapper Gucci Manes former manager, the name Waka was given to him by his cousin, after the Muppets character Fozzie Bears catchphrase, Waka Waka. The name Flocka Flame was given to him by Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka came to fame with his breakthrough single O Lets Do It in 2009, which peaked at number 62 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Waka Flocka is a member of 1017 Brick Squad with Gucci Mane, OJ Da Juiceman, Frenchie, on January 19,2010, Malphurs was shot and robbed at a car wash in Atlanta. The bullet went through his right arm and his debut album, Flockaveli, was released on October 1,2010. The album debuted at six on the US Billboard 200. The album is titled after the Italian political theorist Machiavelli, and inspired by Tupac Shakur, whose stage name. He was named the eighth hottest MC of 2010 by MTV, Gucci Mane fired Waka Flockas mother as his manager. There was initially no animosity between the two due to this event. In an MTV interview, both he and Waka Flocka affirmed that their relationship was, at the time, in good standing even though no longer spoke to one another. In early September, Gucci Mane was seen at Flockas Flockaveli listening party supporting the artist, in 2011, Waka Flocka posed for a nude but not revealing picture for PETA, to boycott killing animals and wearing fur. The picture says ink not mink, Waka Flocka released several mixtapes in 2011, including Salute Me or Shoot Me 3, Benjamin Flocka and his last Twin Towers 2 with fellow rapper Slim Dunkin. On August 9,2011, his album with Gucci Mane. The first single was She Be Puttin On, featuring the now deceased Slim Dunkin, Round of Applause, featuring Canadian rapper Drake, was released on October 14,2011 as the first single from his second studio album, Triple F Life, Friends, Fans & Family. It was produced by frequent collaborator, Lex Luger, the album itself was released on June 8,2012. On January 22,2013, Waka Flocka announced that he has completed his third studio album and he revealed the album will feature guest appearances from Timbaland and Wyclef Jean

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Chief Keef
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Keith Cozart, better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper and record producer from Chicago, Illinois. During his teenage years and while under house arrest, Keefs music videos were met with acclaim from local school students. His increasing popularity led to him being the subject of a bidding war among labels. Ultimately, Keef signed a record deal with Interscope Records. Keef also became the CEO of his own label, Glory Boyz Entertainment. His debut album Finally Rich was released on December 18,2012, since becoming famous, Keef has continued to experience ongoing legal issues. Despite being dropped from Interscope in late 2014, Keef continued self-releasing mixtapes through his Glo Gang label, although Keef had originally planned Bang 3 to be released as his second album, a then-track from the album, Nobody, developed into its own project. Keef released Nobody as an album in December 2014, while continuing to delay the often-pushed back Bang 3. Chief Keef was born Keith Cozart in Chicago, Illinois when his mother was 16 and he grew up in the Parkway Garden Homes, located in the Washington Park neighborhood on the citys South Side. Keef is estranged from his father, when he was a minor, Keefs legal guardian was his grandmother. He began rapping at a young age, regularly listed as 5, using his mothers karaoke machine. During his childhood, Keef attended Dulles Elementary School and the Banner School, Keef dropped out of Dyett High School at age 15. In 2011, Keef first earned attention from Chicagos South Side community with his mixtapes, The Glory Road. In December, Keef fired gunshots from a Pontiac Grand Prix in Chicagos Washington Park neighborhood, police showed up at the scene and the incident resulted in Keef being arrested and charged with unlawful use of a weapon. Keef was consequently placed under house arrest at his grandmothers house for 30 days, followed by another 30 days of home confinement. It has been noted that by the time this incident occurred, Keef had already achieved local South Side popularity, while under house arrest, Keef posted several videos to his YouTube account. These videos were at the forefront of Chicagos hip hop subgenre, the attention he received increased during the short time between the release of his mixtapes, Bang and Back From the Dead, and music videos, including Bang, 3Hunna and I Dont Like. Once his house arrest ended, WorldStarHipHop released a video of a child hysterically celebrating Keefs release from house arrest and it also caught fellow Chicago rapper Kanye Wests attention, and West created a remix of the song with rappers Pusha T, Jadakiss and Big Sean

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Young Thug
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Jeffery Lamar Williams, best known professionally as Young Thug, is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. I. and Gucci Mane. Young Thug initially released a series of independent mixtapes beginning in 2011 with I Came From Nothing, in early 2013, he signed a record deal with Gucci Manes 1017 Records and later that year he released his label debut mixtape 1017 Thug, which featured the track Picacho. Young Thug received mainstream recognition in 2014 with the songs Stoner and Danny Glover in addition to appearances on singles, including About the Money. That year, he signed to Lyor Cohens 300 Entertainment and collaborated on the mixtapes Black Portland and Rich Gang. In 2015, he released a number of mixtapes, including Barter 6 and these were followed in 2016 by the mixtapes Im Up, Slime Season 3, and Jeffery in anticipation of his long-delayed debut studio album, Hy. £UN35. Jeffery Lamar Williams was born on August 16,1991, in Atlanta, Georgia and he is from Sylvan Hills, a neighborhood in Atlanta, and grew up in the Jonesboro South projects. Other rappers from the neighborhood include Waka Flocka Flame,2 Chainz, Ludacris and Williams childhood friend PeeWee Longway, Thug subsequently released his first project on the label, his fourth mixtape,1017 Thug. The mixtape was met with reviews from music critics, which noted it for its original style. 1017 Thug was included in a number of lists for 2013, such as the Pitchfork Albums of the Year, Honorable Mention. FACT called it the best mixtape of 2013, Rolling Stone placed it at five on their 10 Best Mixtapes of 2013. In July 2013, Complex included him in their list of 25 New Rappers to Watch Out For, in October 2013, Young Thug released his commercial debut single Stoner. The song spawned a number of remixes by several rappers, including Wale, Jim Jones, Jadakiss, Iamsu. and Trick-Trick. Thug expressed his disapproval for the remixes, commenting If you feel like my song isnt tough enough to the point where you have to freestyle, dont think Im happy that youre doing it because of who you are. His song Danny Glover also received a number of remixes by Waka Flocka Flame and Nicki Minaj, in December 2013, Thug performed at Fools Gold Day Off show in Miami, among Danny Brown, Trick Daddy and Travis Scott. Pitchfork ranked 1017 Thug as one of the best albums of the first half of the 2010s decade, on January 18,2014, Young Thug revealed that he was offered $1.5 million to sign to Futures Freebandz record label. In March 2014, Young Thugs affiliation with Cash Money Records and its executive officer Birdman. However, the labels publicist later stated this was untrue, in 2014, Thug also recorded several songs with Kanye West, who praised him for his ability to make songs so fast. Thug announced that he has upcoming mixtapes with Rich Homie Quan, Chief Keef, Young Thug would go on to be featured on the March 2014 cover of The Fader

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Asylum Records
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Asylum Records is an American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen and partner Elliot Roberts. It was taken over by Warner Communications in 1972, and later merged with Elektra Records to become Elektra/Asylum Records, after various incarnations, today it is geared primarily towards hip-hop, along with rock and alternative metal. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and is distributed through Atlantic Records. Asylum was founded in 1971 by David Geffen, and partner Elliot Roberts, who had worked as agents at the William Morris Agency. They had previously founded their own management company, Geffen was unable to get a recording contract for their client Jackson Browne. While pitching Browne to Ahmet Ertegun, Geffen said, Youll make a lot of money, Ertegun replied, You know what, David, I have a lot of money. Why dont you start a company and then youll have a lot of money. They agreed immediately that Ertegun would put up the funds, Atlantic Records would distribute Asylum Records. Although they knew they would sign Browne, the first act that Geffen asked to join the label was his close friend Laura Nyro, Nyro agreed, but without Geffens knowledge she changed her mind and re-signed with Columbia Records. Geffen said it was the biggest betrayal of his life up to that point, Asylums early releases were distributed by Atlantic Records. His seventh and final album for the label, Heartattack and Vine, was released in 1980, former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty signed with the label in 1974. The biggest coup for Asylum was signing Bob Dylan, who had been with Columbia Records since the early 1960s but who, Dylan recorded two albums, Planet Waves and the live Before the Flood, for Asylum before returning to Columbia. Columbia reissued Dylans two Asylum albums in 1981, Asylum was taken over by Warner Communications in 1973, and merged with Elektra Records to become Elektra/Asylum Records. David Geffen and Elliot Roberts each received $2 million in cash and $5 million in Warner Communications stock, Geffen served as president and chairman of Elektra/Asylum Records until 1975, when he crossed over to film and was named vice-chairman of Warner Bros. By the middle of the decade, the company was calling itself Elektra Records. By this time Asylums remaining acts had been shifted to the Elektra roster, although catalog recordings, Asylum was reformatted into a Country music label, still operated by Elektra, in 1992. Under the new format, Asylum scored successful recordings by acts as Emmylou Harris, Brother Phelps, Thrasher Shiver, Kevin Sharp, Bryan White. They also produced many critically acclaimed albums by such as Mandy Barnett, Guy Clark, The Cox Family, Bob Woodruff, John Douglas Myers

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The State vs. Radric Davis
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The State vs. Radric Davis is the sixth studio album by American rapper Gucci Mane. It was released on December 8,2009, the State vs. Radric Davis comes after a slew of independent releases, mixtapes, and features over the past few years. Productions from Polow da Don, Drumma Boy, Mannie Fresh, featured artists includes, Usher, Plies, Lil Wayne, Camron, Soulja Boy, Rick Ross, Bun B, OJ da Juiceman, Wooh da Kid, Waka Flocka Flame, and Nicki Minaj. The iTunes deluxe version contains the EP, Wasted, The Prequel, the album debuted at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 selling 89,000 copies in its first week. The album was met generally favorable reviews from music critics. As of August 19,2012, the album has sold an estimated 424,000 copies, with the success of The State vs. Radric Davis, Gucci Mane announced that his next two albums will be parts of a trilogy. The second, and third album will be called The Appeal, Georgias Most Wanted due for release September 28,2010, however he later decided to break the trilogy and change the third albums title. Wasted featuring Plies was released as the single on September 26,2009. It peaked at number thirty-six in the Billboard Hot 100, spotlight featuring Usher was released as the second single on October 19,2009, and peaked at number forty-two in the US as well as reaching number fifteen on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The songs subject matter involves the proceeds from the sale of codeine-infused lemonade. Bingo featuring Soulja Boy and Waka Flocka Flame was released as the single on January 12,2010. Worst Enemy was released as the first promotional single on November 12,2009, the song revisits Gucci Manes past, how it led to his fame, and how hes moving on in life despite his struggles. Young Jeezy and T. I. are referenced in the song, a music video for the song was released on December 8,2009. Heavy was released as the promotional single on November 25,2009. The videos for the deluxe edition tracks Bricks featuring Yung Ralph and Yo Gotti, Photoshoot, a music video was also filmed for All About the Money featuring Rick Ross. Bricks, and Photoshoot both managed to peak, respectively, at nineteen, and number eighteen on the US Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. The State vs. Radric Davis received generally favorable reviews from music critics, at Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 11 reviews. Radric Davis delivers the full spectrum of Gucci Mane, showing both the cash and yellow diamond-loving side, as well as his more reflective side, Radric Davis has proven the rappers case beyond a reasonable doubt

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Flockaveli
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Flockaveli is the debut studio album by American rapper Waka Flocka Flame. The album was recorded at Next Level Studios in Houston, NightBird Recording Studios in West Hollywood, released by Asylum Records on October 5,2010, Flockaveli received generally positive reviews from critics, who complimented its musical intensity, brazen lyrics, and gangsta rap ethos. The album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200, with sales of 37,000 copies in the United States. As of August 15,2011, the album sold 285,000 copies in the United States, Waka Flocka Flames unrefined street raps feature constant ad libs. According to Pitchfork Medias David Drake, the songs reduce gangsta rap to its themes, hypermasculine children of the drug trade, reckless fatalism, intensity. Wakas aggression is the survivalist reaction of the powerless, directed toward the threats of the immediate environment, the albums lead single, called O Lets Do It was released on December 25,2009. The song features guest appearances from Cap, who was credited for his only on the single. The song peaked at number 62 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the remix to O Lets Do It was released, featuring Diddy, Rick Ross and Gucci Mane. The second single Hard in da Paint was released on May 13,2010, in July, a music video for the song was released. The remix to Hard in da Paint featuring American R&B singer Ciara, the albums third single No Hands featuring Roscoe Dash and Wale, was released on August 17,2010. It has peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, the albums fourth and final single Grove St. Party featuring Kebo Gotti, was released on February 15,2011. It has charted at number 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. There are also music videos for the songs, such as Snake in the Grass featuring Cartier Kitten, Bustin at Em, For My Dawgs, on October 18,2010, Waka Flocka Flame performed Smoke, Drank live on high-definition TV at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood. Flockaveli was released by Asylum Records on October 5,2010 and it debuted at number 6 on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 37,000 copies in the United States. As of August 15,2011, the album has sold 285,000 copies, Flockaveli received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications. Jaimie Hodgson from NME commented that the songs showcase a masterclass in reductionism, juggernauts of hulking, bruising. BBC Musics Louis Pattison praised Waka Flocka Flames cold charisma, writing that it’s channelled successfully here, Pitchfork critic David Drake described it as a furious torrent of gangsta rap id and praised Waka for giving the album its frenetic intensity

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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B

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The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted
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The Appeal, Georgias Most Wanted is the seventh studio album by American rapper Gucci Mane. It was released on September 28,2010, by 1017 Brick Squad Records, Warner Bros. Records and it serves as a sequel to his previous studio release The State vs. Radric Davis, which was released after the Atlanta rappers incarceration from prison. The album debuted at number 4 on the US Billboard 200, with sales of 61,450 copies. In November 2009, Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in Georgias Fulton County Jail, in May 2010, after the rappers was released from prison, he has putting in these series of his mixtapes, tracks and viral videos. These works includes The Burrrprint 2, Mr. Zone 6, Jewelery Selection, Ferrari Music, Buy My Album and he then announced that he changed the name of his label into making it a new one, called 1017 Brick Squad Records. He also announced the title to his album, called The State vs. Radric Davis, The Appeal. The title was changed to The Appeal, Georgias Most Wanted, Gucci Mane later announced on his Twitter, that the album would be released on a date of Septemburrr 28,2010. During the interview with Atlantas DJ Greg Street, Gucci Mane spoke about the album that it was good representation upon where he is musically and mentally. In addition to several of his record producers such as Zaytoven, Shawty Redd, Drumma Boy and Fatboi, among others. The Appeal, Georgias Most Wanted also includes his first-time that have collaborated with Swizz Beatz, former Haitian presidential candidate Wyclef Jean, the new people I did songs I actually made hit record with them. I made six records with Swizz, I made six records with Pharrell, and then I picked the best ones. I think this is a classic, with the completion of his follow-up album, Gucci Mane said that this is his best chance to capitalize on his underground allure. He told MTV that he considers this album to be a masterpiece and its mixed and mastered, and the artwork is done. Im just out here promoting it and letting everyone know its coming, just bring awareness to it cause I want everyone to know its coming and to support it because its a masterpiece. That journey continues with a sharper focus. Burrrprint HD was released April 12,2010 on the iTunes Store, the 24-track mixtape, hosted by DJ Holiday, is a mix of new songs and interludes. This collection was the last music Gucci Mane recorded before his 2009 incarceration, its opening track, Gucci called me from Fulton County and told me to start recording, says DJ Holiday. He busted a hot verse right there on the phone and thats what you hear on the record, with the 1-minute automated warning and all, you have one minute remaining, its so real

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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy

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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years

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Frenchie
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Frenchie is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by Louis King starring Shelley Winters and Joel McCrea. The plot is based on the western Destry Rides Again. Frank Dawson is killed in the town of Bottleneck by his double-crossing partner Jack Lambert, for the next 15 years, she lives in orphanages and works for the Fontaines, originally from Paris, earning her the nickname Frenchie. Now grown, she makes a running a casino in New Orleans. She buys the casino the Scarlet Angel but learns that sheriff Tom Banning has cleaned up the town, forcing gamblers to go to nearby Chuckaluck, where the man in charge is Lambert. Frenchie gets in touch with Lance Cole, a man who helped her in New Orleans, Lamberts gambling interests are threatened, so he plans to ambush Coles stage. Cole is in love with Frenchie and suspicious that Tom might be taking an interest in her, toms former fiancee, Diane, is jealous, too. She ended up marrying a banker, Clyde Gorman, only for his money. She and her husband rally the Bottleneck townspeople to get rid of these new gamblers in town, Frenchie visits her fathers grave, seen by Tom, who guesses correctly that she is Dawsons daughter. He rides to Chuckaluck to prevent trouble, but Lambert tries to shoot him, the men of Bottleneck who want Frenchie gone head for the hills when she lies to them about a gold discovery there. Diane declares her love to Tom, who rejects her, Diane goes to the Scarlet Angel to confront Frenchie and lets it slip that her husband is Lamberts silent partner. The women get into a fight, which Tom breaks up, Frenchie now knows the identities of the two men who murdered her dad. When she decides against vengeance, Cole figures she wont kill Gorman because that would make Diane a widow, an unknown figure shoots Gorman in the back. Tom is accused and locked up in his own jail, Frenchie organizes a jailbreak, but Tom is suspicious because he thinks Frenchie could be setting him up to be gunned down by a posse. Lambert draws and Tom kills him in self-defense, when things look bleak for him, Diane confesses that it was she who killed her husband. Tom assumes that Frenchie will leave town now, but Frenchie goes into a cell, closes the door and throws away the key, letting Tom know shes not going anywhere

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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart

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Compact Disc
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Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data. The first commercially available Audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan, standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimetres and can hold up to about 80 minutes of uncompressed audio or about 700 MiB of data. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from 60 to 80 millimetres, they are used for CD singles, storing up to 24 minutes of audio. At the time of the introduction in 1982, a CD could store much more data than a personal computer hard drive. By 2010, hard drives commonly offered as much space as a thousand CDs. In 2004, worldwide sales of audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30 billion discs, by 2007,200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide. In 2014, revenues from digital music services matched those from physical format sales for the first time. American inventor James T. Russell has been credited with inventing the first system to record information on an optical transparent foil that is lit from behind by a high-power halogen lamp. Russells patent application was first filed in 1966, and he was granted a patent in 1970, following litigation, Sony and Philips licensed Russells patents in the 1980s. The compact disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s, although originally dismissed by Philips Research management as a trivial pursuit, the CD became the primary focus for Philips as the LaserDisc format struggled. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980, after their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984, by 1988 CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and by 1992 CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music cassette tapes. The success of the disc has been credited to the cooperation between Philips and Sony, who came together to agree upon and develop compatible hardware. The unified design of the disc allowed consumers to purchase any disc or player from any company. In 1974, L. However, due to the performance of the analog format

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BAYTL
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BAYTL is a collaboration album between rappers Gucci Mane and V-Nasty, produced by Zaytoven and Tha Bizness. The album was released on December 13,2011, through 1017 Brick Squad Records, Vice Records, Asylum Records, the albums first official single was Whip Appeal, which was released on November 19,2011. On December 16, the rappers were preparing to shoot a video for the song Push Ups at a recording studio in Atlanta. The song featured Slim Dunkin, who upon arrival got into an altercation with rapper, Young Vito. On January 12,2012, a video for the song Lets Get Faded was released and has so far been viewed over 2 million times, BAYTL was heavily panned by critics and listeners alike. According to Metacritic, scoring only 39/100, the album got a 2. 5/5 rating from Allmusic, 2/5 from XXL, 1/10 from Spin and 0. 5/5 from Consequence of Sound

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1017 Brick Squad
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The label itself has been a home to a roster of prominent hip hop artists that included Waka Flocka Flame, OJ da Juiceman, Chief Keef, Young Thug, and Young Scooter. Gucci Mane opened the record label after signing with Mizay Entertainment in 2007, following the release of his independent album, on May 4,2010, Mane announced he had closed So Icey Entertainment and left Mizay Entertainment due to business problems with Debra Antney. Gucci Mane stated that he was starting his own record label, the first artists to sign up to 1017 Brick Squad were OJ Da Juiceman, Wali Da Great, and Waka Flocka Flame, who signed up whilst they were still signed to Mizay Entertainment. Juicemans debut album was released through the Brick Squad record label. Brick Squads first mainstream success occurred in 2009, when Gucci released The State vs. Radric Davis, Brick Squad also signed Waka Flocka Flame, who released his debut album, Flockaveli, through Brick Squad, Mizay Entertainment, and Warner Bros. On September 28,2010, Mane released his studio album, The Appeal. On December 16,2011, member Slim Dunkin was shot and he was shot while arguing with another person in the building, who has been identified as another Atlanta rapper, Young Vito. On February 25,2013, Young Vito was acquitted of murdering Slim Dunkin, on March 15,2013, via Twitter, Gucci Mane said that he dropped Waka Flocka Flame and he was no longer a member of 1017 Brick Squad. The next day, Guccis management claimed his Twitter account was hacked, however Waka would claim this to be false and later diss Gucci Mane at a Dipset reunion concert in New York City. On March 27,2013, Waka told MTV that it would be impossible for him to be dropped from 1017 Brick Squad as he owns stake in the company. He also confirmed there was indeed a feud going on between the rappers and they would never make music or do business together again. On May 8,2013, Gucci Mane announced via Twitter that Chicago rapper Chief Keef was the newest member of 1017 Brick Squad, the following day, Gucci announced that he also signed producer C4, who had frequently worked with 1017 artists in the past. On September 7,2013, various members of 1017 Brick Squad and Brick Squad Mafia traded shots back and forth on Twitter, including Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, Frenchie, Wooh Da Kid, and OJ da Juiceman. Gucci would go on to say fuck brick squad and accuse his former manager, Waka Flockas mom Debra Antney, of stealing money from OJ da Juiceman and Frenchie. Frenchie also accused Gucci Mane of paying for Young Vitos lawyer, the murderer of former 1017 Brick Squad artist Slim Dunkin. Frenchie would release a diss record towards Gucci the following day, during the following days, it was revealed that OJ da Juiceman, Frenchie, and Woo da Kid were no longer officially signed to 1017 Brick Squad Records. Their street counterparts were divided, with gangsters in the streets siding with OG Mack Drama. It was also revealed that Waka Flocka recently bought out a deal with Atlantic Records

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Ferrari Boyz
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Ferrari Boyz is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame. Originally scheduled for a June 21,2011, release, it was delayed and it features Rocko,2 Chainz,1017 Brick Squad labelmates Wooh da Kid, and Frenchie, and also Brick Squad Monopoly members Slim Dunkin, Ice Burgundy, and YG Hootie. The album was produced by label producer Southside, with additional production by 808 Mafia, Drumma Boy, Fatboi, Shawty Redd. According to Waka Flocka, the album was completed in 1–2 weeks, the first single from the album is the Drumma Boy-produced Ferrari Boyz. She Be Puttin On, featuring former labelmate Slim Dunkin, was released on iTunes as the single on July 8,2011. It was produced by 808 Mafias Southside and Lex Luger, the music video for the song was released on August 9,2011. The music video for the song Pacman, produced by Southside, was released on August 10, in 2013, the song Young Niggaz was featured in the Harmony Korine movie Spring Breakers. Ferrari Boyz debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 21, with sales of 17,000 copies in the United States. Ferrari Boyz received generally mixed reviews from music critics, evan Serpick of Rolling Stone awarded it 2 out of 5 stars and said not to expect innovation from these titans of Southern rap. Instead, brace yourself for chanted celebrations of money, cars, cocaine and he commented that Gucci delivers mush-mouthed lines and Waka fails to rise to the level of his 2010 debut

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Brick Squad Monopoly
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The label itself has been a home to a roster of prominent hip hop artists that included Waka Flocka Flame, OJ da Juiceman, Chief Keef, Young Thug, and Young Scooter. Gucci Mane opened the record label after signing with Mizay Entertainment in 2007, following the release of his independent album, on May 4,2010, Mane announced he had closed So Icey Entertainment and left Mizay Entertainment due to business problems with Debra Antney. Gucci Mane stated that he was starting his own record label, the first artists to sign up to 1017 Brick Squad were OJ Da Juiceman, Wali Da Great, and Waka Flocka Flame, who signed up whilst they were still signed to Mizay Entertainment. Juicemans debut album was released through the Brick Squad record label. Brick Squads first mainstream success occurred in 2009, when Gucci released The State vs. Radric Davis, Brick Squad also signed Waka Flocka Flame, who released his debut album, Flockaveli, through Brick Squad, Mizay Entertainment, and Warner Bros. On September 28,2010, Mane released his studio album, The Appeal. On December 16,2011, member Slim Dunkin was shot and he was shot while arguing with another person in the building, who has been identified as another Atlanta rapper, Young Vito. On February 25,2013, Young Vito was acquitted of murdering Slim Dunkin, on March 15,2013, via Twitter, Gucci Mane said that he dropped Waka Flocka Flame and he was no longer a member of 1017 Brick Squad. The next day, Guccis management claimed his Twitter account was hacked, however Waka would claim this to be false and later diss Gucci Mane at a Dipset reunion concert in New York City. On March 27,2013, Waka told MTV that it would be impossible for him to be dropped from 1017 Brick Squad as he owns stake in the company. He also confirmed there was indeed a feud going on between the rappers and they would never make music or do business together again. On May 8,2013, Gucci Mane announced via Twitter that Chicago rapper Chief Keef was the newest member of 1017 Brick Squad, the following day, Gucci announced that he also signed producer C4, who had frequently worked with 1017 artists in the past. On September 7,2013, various members of 1017 Brick Squad and Brick Squad Mafia traded shots back and forth on Twitter, including Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, Frenchie, Wooh Da Kid, and OJ da Juiceman. Gucci would go on to say fuck brick squad and accuse his former manager, Waka Flockas mom Debra Antney, of stealing money from OJ da Juiceman and Frenchie. Frenchie also accused Gucci Mane of paying for Young Vitos lawyer, the murderer of former 1017 Brick Squad artist Slim Dunkin. Frenchie would release a diss record towards Gucci the following day, during the following days, it was revealed that OJ da Juiceman, Frenchie, and Woo da Kid were no longer officially signed to 1017 Brick Squad Records. Their street counterparts were divided, with gangsters in the streets siding with OG Mack Drama. It was also revealed that Waka Flocka recently bought out a deal with Atlantic Records

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Triple F Life: Fans, Friends & Family
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Triple F Life, Friends, Fans & Family is the second studio album by American rapper Waka Flocka Flame. It was released on June 8,2012, by 1017 Brick Squad, Brick Squad Monopoly, Asylum Records, in 2011, using his increased influence, Waka Flocka Flame expanded the 1017 Bricksquad roster, signing several new rappers to the label including YG Hootie and Kebo Gotti. In January 2011, in an interview with radio presenter Bootleg Kev, Waka Flocka Flame revealed the title to be Triple F Life, Fans, Friends. Waka Flocka Flame would later dedicate Triple F Life, Fans, Friends and Family to Dunkin, Round of Applause peaked at number 86 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 15 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number 16 on the US Hot Rap Songs chart. On February 26,2012, the video was released for Round of Applause featuring Drake. The albums second single, I Dont Really Care, was sent to radio on March 20,2012. The song features guest vocals from American singer and rapper Trey Songz, on May 1,2012, the music video was released for I Dont Really Care featuring Trey Songz. The albums third single, Get Low, which features fellow rappers Nicki Minaj, Tyga, Rooster in My Rari was released a promotional single to digital retailers on May 18,2012. On August 31,2012, the video was released for Get Low featuring Flo Rida, Nicki Minaj. On June 11,2012, the video was released for Rooster In My Rari. On June 12,2012, the video was released for Let Dem Guns Blam featuring Meek Mill. On June 13,2012, the video was released for Candy Paint & Gold Teeth featuring Bun B. On July 30,2012, the video was released for Fist Pump featuring B. o. B. Triple F Life, Friends, Fans & Family received generally positive reviews music critics. Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media gave the album a 7, ralph Bristout of XXL gave the album an XL, saying Some will say Triple F Life finds Waka trying to do much, reaching too far out of his zone. But the rapper coolly exceeds expectations in his artistic self-awareness and this go-round shines like his diamond-studded Fozzy Bear chain, kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B–, saying Several tracks in, his second disc begins to bow under the weight of its own aggro intensity. The album debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, with sales of 33,000 copies in the United States. The album debuted at number 49 on the Canadian Albums Chart

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Trap House III
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Trap House III is the ninth studio album by American rapper Gucci Mane. The album serves as a sequel to his fourth album Back to the Trap House, the album was released exclusively to digital download retailers on May 21,2013 independently by 1017 Brick Squad Records and 101 Distribution. The album features guest appearances from Rick Ross, Rich Homie Quan, Wiz Khalifa, Shawty Lo, Young Scooter, Young Thug and Chief Keef among others. On February 21,2013, Gucci Mane announced he would be releasing a new album Trap House 3 The Guwop Edition on July 2,2013, on February 21,2013, the first song from the album Dirty Cup featuring 2 Chainz was released. On March 6,2013, the cover was released. On April 12,2013, it was announced that the date would be pushed up to May 21,2013. On May 4,2013, the video for Thirsty was released. On May 9,2013, the song from the album Darker featuring Chief Keef was released On May 13,2013. On May 16,2013, the song from the album Traphouse 3 featuring Rick Ross was released. On May 28,2013, the video was released for Traphouse 3 featuring Rick Ross. On August 14,2013, the video was released for Darker featuring Chief Keef. Trap House III was met generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. Neil Martinez-Belkin XXL gave the album an L, saying In all, Trap House III is Gucci’s strongest effort this year, perhaps his best since his 2012 “comeback tape, the booming production and the Brick Squad CEO’s natural charisma make it so. The two aforementioned Auto-Tuned records also serve as proof that Gucci’s still more than capable of surprising listeners with some unexpected tricks up his sleeve. David Jeffries of AllMusic gave the three and a half stars out of five, saying Good times, some redundant numbers, all of it jumbled together. Just be aware, Guccis inspired by more serene and soft moments at this point, so call this the most couch locked of all Trap Houses and get prepared to sprawl out for a long, low ride. The album debuted at number 175 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 2,500 copies in the United States

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XXL (magazine)
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XXL is an American hip hop magazine, published by Townsquare Media, founded in 1997. In August 1997, Harris Publications released the first issue of XXL and it featured rappers Jay-Z and Master P on a double cover. In December 2006, XXL took over the hip hop producer and DJ magazine Scratch. However Scratch shut down less than a later in September 2007. Other titles with limited runs have been launched under the XXL brand, including Hip-Hop Soul, Eye Candy, XXL has released many other special projects including tour programs, mixtapes and exclusive DVDs. XXL also maintains a website, which provides daily hip hop news. In 2014, Townsquare Media acquired XXL, King and Antenna from Harris Publications, on October 14,2014, Townsquare announced it would continue print publication of XXL. In December 2014 the company reported that the magazine would be published on a quarterly basis, the magazines past editors include Reginald C. Dennis, Sheena Lester, Elliott Wilson and Datwon Thomas, in May 2009, Datwon Thomas resigned from XXL and executive editor Vanessa Satten, who had been with XXL since 1998, was named the new Editor-in-Chief. In November 2008 XXL released XXL Raps Volume 1, which included music from 50 Cent, G-Unit, Common, Jim Jones, on August 20,2013 XXL released its 150th issue, also celebrating its sixteenth anniversary. The issue featured the first solo cover on the magazine from Drake, starting in 2007, XXL also releases its annual Top 10 Freshman list. The issue features the ten picks of who to watch out for, and on the cover of the magazine and showcases new rappers that arent well known, the list has become known to create buzz and is credited for giving many artists their first taste of fame

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Nielsen Business Media
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Nielsen Holdings PLC is a global information, data, and measurement company with headquarters in the United States. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 44,000 people worldwide, total revenues were $6.2 billion in 2015. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is currently a component of the S&P500, in 2016, American Marketing Association ranked Nielsen number 1 among top 50 Market Research Firms in the United States. Nielsen was founded in 1923 by Arthur C, Nielsen, Sr. who invented an approach to measuring competitive sales results that made the concept of “market share” a practical management tool. The Company was originally incorporated in the Netherlands and later was purchased on May 24,2006 by a consortium of private equity firms. In January 2011, Nielsen consummated an initial offering of common stock and, subsequently. The companys operations span developing and emerging markets worldwide, in more than 100 countries, upon approval, the company became incorporated under English law and was registered as a public limited company to be named Nielsen Holdings PLC. James Attwood Jr. is Nielsens Executive Chairman, and Mitch Barns is Nielsens Chief Executive Officer, james Attwood succeeded Dave Calhoun as Executive Chairman in January 2016. He served as Nielsen CEO from to 2006 to 2014, when he was succeeded by Barns, barnes joined Nielsen in 1997 and has held various roles in Europe, Asia, and North America leading major parts of the business. While the Nielsen brand is most often associated with television ratings, after substantial work to simplify the company over the last several years, Nielsen today aligns its business into two reporting segments, Buy and Watch. Nielsens Buy segment primarily helps packaged goods companies and retailers understand what consumers are buying in terms of categories, brands, the company’s aim is to measure all consumer purchases as buying behavior continues to fragment across channels and segments. For example, it is Nielsens data that measures how much Diet Coke vs. Diet Pepsi is sold in stores and they also can provide insights into how changes in product offerings, pricing or marketing would change sales. Major clients include The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé S. A, the Procter & Gamble Company, Unilever Group, and Walmart. While the United States is the company’s largest market, Nielsen is a global company, in the Buy business, it covers 106 countries representing more than 90% of the world’s population. Nielsens Watch segment primarily measures what consumers are watching across most devices, TV, radio, computers, mobile, over-the-top, the company measures consumption of programming and advertising across all distribution points. Nielsens ratings are used by advertisers and networks to shape the buying and selling of advertising, major clients include CBS, NBC Universal, News Corporation, and The Walt Disney Company. Nielsen’s Watch business measures media in 47 countries that represent approximately 80% of global advertising spending. Nielsen’s digital audience measurement capability is a growing part of this footprint

Interscope
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label

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Interscope Records

Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on Dece

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"Weird Al" Yankovic edits the Atlantic Records' Wikipedia page to read "YOU SUCK!" in the music video for the song " White & Nerdy "

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Atlantic Records logo as of 2015.

Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire su

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1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the Bronx, a venue used by Kool Herc that is often considered the birthplace of hip hop in 1973

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DJ Kool Herc, recognized as one of the earliest hip hop artists

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Grandmaster Flash

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Afrika Bambaataa (left)

Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In

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From top to bottom left to right: Atlanta skyline seen from Buckhead, the Fox Theatre, the Georgia State Capitol, Centennial Olympic Park, Millennium Gate, the Canopy Walk, the Georgia Aquarium, The Phoenix statue, and the Midtown skyline

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Marietta Street, 1864

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Atlanta in ruins during the Civil War, 1864

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In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles.

Waka Flocka Flame
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Juaquin James Malphurs, better known as Waka Flocka Flame or simply Waka Flocka, is an American rapper. His debut studio album Flockaveli was released in 2010 and his second studio album Triple F Life, Friends, Fans & Family was released in 2012 and was preceded by the lead single Round of Applause. Malphurs was born in South Jamaica, New York and

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Waka Flocka performing at the London Hall in London, England on August 6, 2014

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Waka Flocka in 2010

Chief Keef
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Keith Cozart, better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper and record producer from Chicago, Illinois. During his teenage years and while under house arrest, Keefs music videos were met with acclaim from local school students. His increasing popularity led to him being the subject of a bidding war among labels. Ultimately, Keef

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Kanye West, a fellow Chicagoan, discovered Chief Keef, and has since remixed his songs and collaborated with Keef

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Chief Keef performing at Lollapalooza, 2012.

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Chief Keef (far right, in grey) performing at Lollapalooza 2012

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Chief Keef has drawn comparisons to 50 Cent.

Young Thug
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Jeffery Lamar Williams, best known professionally as Young Thug, is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. I. and Gucci Mane. Young Thug initially released a series of independent mixtapes beginning in 2011 with I Came From Nothing, in early 2013, he signed a record deal with Gucci Manes 1017 Records and later that year he released his label deb

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Lil Wayne (pictured) is the biggest influence of Thug.

Asylum Records
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Asylum Records is an American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen and partner Elliot Roberts. It was taken over by Warner Communications in 1972, and later merged with Elektra Records to become Elektra/Asylum Records, after various incarnations, today it is geared primarily towards hip-hop, along with rock and alternative metal. It is owne

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Asylum Records

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Original logo

The State vs. Radric Davis
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The State vs. Radric Davis is the sixth studio album by American rapper Gucci Mane. It was released on December 8,2009, the State vs. Radric Davis comes after a slew of independent releases, mixtapes, and features over the past few years. Productions from Polow da Don, Drumma Boy, Mannie Fresh, featured artists includes, Usher, Plies, Lil Wayne, Ca

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The State vs. Radric Davis

Flockaveli
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Flockaveli is the debut studio album by American rapper Waka Flocka Flame. The album was recorded at Next Level Studios in Houston, NightBird Recording Studios in West Hollywood, released by Asylum Records on October 5,2010, Flockaveli received generally positive reviews from critics, who complimented its musical intensity, brazen lyrics, and gangs

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Flockaveli

Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate

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The gold, black and red label design used for Warner Bros. stereo albums from 1958 to 1968 and mono albums from 1964 to 1968.

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The grey, black, white and yellow label design used for Warner Bros. mono albums from 1958 to 1964 when it switched to the same gold label as the stereo version.

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"Cream Puff War" (1967), the first Warner Bros. single by The Grateful Dead, showing the orange label with chevron border used on WBR's American 45s for much of the 1960s.

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Beginning in 1968, Warner LP and single label designs became identical. From 1968 to 1970, the label was called Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records. The basic design and colour scheme of the W7 label were retained after the company name reverted to Warner Bros. Records and the "WB" shield in 1970 and remained in use until 1973.

The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted
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The Appeal, Georgias Most Wanted is the seventh studio album by American rapper Gucci Mane. It was released on September 28,2010, by 1017 Brick Squad Records, Warner Bros. Records and it serves as a sequel to his previous studio release The State vs. Radric Davis, which was released after the Atlanta rappers incarceration from prison. The album deb

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The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted

Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, Califo

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Twitter's San Francisco, California headquarters, as seen from a corner on Market Street

MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism toward

Frenchie
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Frenchie is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by Louis King starring Shelley Winters and Joel McCrea. The plot is based on the western Destry Rides Again. Frank Dawson is killed in the town of Bottleneck by his double-crossing partner Jack Lambert, for the next 15 years, she lives in orphanages and works for the Fontaines, originall

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Theatrical release poster

Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during

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Contents

Compact Disc
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Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data. The first commercially available Audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan, standard CDs have a diam

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The pits in a CD are 500 nm wide, between 830 nm and 3,000 nm long and 150 nm deep

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700 MiB CD-R next to a mechanical pencil

BAYTL
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BAYTL is a collaboration album between rappers Gucci Mane and V-Nasty, produced by Zaytoven and Tha Bizness. The album was released on December 13,2011, through 1017 Brick Squad Records, Vice Records, Asylum Records, the albums first official single was Whip Appeal, which was released on November 19,2011. On December 16, the rappers were preparing

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BAYTL

1017 Brick Squad
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The label itself has been a home to a roster of prominent hip hop artists that included Waka Flocka Flame, OJ da Juiceman, Chief Keef, Young Thug, and Young Scooter. Gucci Mane opened the record label after signing with Mizay Entertainment in 2007, following the release of his independent album, on May 4,2010, Mane announced he had closed So Icey E

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Brick Squad Monopoly

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1017 Records' logo

Ferrari Boyz
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Ferrari Boyz is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame. Originally scheduled for a June 21,2011, release, it was delayed and it features Rocko,2 Chainz,1017 Brick Squad labelmates Wooh da Kid, and Frenchie, and also Brick Squad Monopoly members Slim Dunkin, Ice Burgundy, and YG Hootie. The album was produc

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Ferrari Boyz

Brick Squad Monopoly
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The label itself has been a home to a roster of prominent hip hop artists that included Waka Flocka Flame, OJ da Juiceman, Chief Keef, Young Thug, and Young Scooter. Gucci Mane opened the record label after signing with Mizay Entertainment in 2007, following the release of his independent album, on May 4,2010, Mane announced he had closed So Icey E

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Brick Squad Monopoly

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1017 Records' logo

Triple F Life: Fans, Friends & Family
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Triple F Life, Friends, Fans & Family is the second studio album by American rapper Waka Flocka Flame. It was released on June 8,2012, by 1017 Brick Squad, Brick Squad Monopoly, Asylum Records, in 2011, using his increased influence, Waka Flocka Flame expanded the 1017 Bricksquad roster, signing several new rappers to the label including YG Hootie

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Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family

Trap House III
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Trap House III is the ninth studio album by American rapper Gucci Mane. The album serves as a sequel to his fourth album Back to the Trap House, the album was released exclusively to digital download retailers on May 21,2013 independently by 1017 Brick Squad Records and 101 Distribution. The album features guest appearances from Rick Ross, Rich Hom

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Trap House III

XXL (magazine)
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XXL is an American hip hop magazine, published by Townsquare Media, founded in 1997. In August 1997, Harris Publications released the first issue of XXL and it featured rappers Jay-Z and Master P on a double cover. In December 2006, XXL took over the hip hop producer and DJ magazine Scratch. However Scratch shut down less than a later in September

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Magazine cover of XXL Presents Shade 45

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XXL

Nielsen Business Media
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Nielsen Holdings PLC is a global information, data, and measurement company with headquarters in the United States. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 44,000 people worldwide, total revenues were $6.2 billion in 2015. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is currently a component of the S&P500, in 20